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| – as corruption reports biteFaced with embarrassing reports questioning transparency in the award of massive contracts, the government will this week meet key stakeholders to outline the process of public procurement.This comes as the country readies for the imminent establishment of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) and the implementation of standard bidding documents for all state agencies involved in the procurement of goods and services.Tomorrow and Friday, the government will bring together all stakeholders, including bid evaluators and contractors, to thrash out all the details regarding public procurement.Junior Minister of Finance, Juan EdghillMinister within the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill, during a press conference on Monday,Cheap Jerseys From China, explained that it could be considered “two significant and landmark days” in the government’s quest for fairness, transparency and value for money in the award of government contracts.Edghill said that the issue of public procurement has been in the public spaces and the government was therefore taking a proactive approach in dealing with the issue.On Thursday, all of the persons at the national, regional and ministerial levels who are involved in the evaluation of bids would meet to fully ventilate how they should do so. Evaluation committees recommend the best bids to the National Procurement and Tender Board Administration. If it involves a contract of over $15 million, the recommendation goes to the Cabinet for a “No Objection” before it could be awarded.Edghill said that this Thursday meeting, which would be closed to the public, is an effort to strengthen the evaluation process and to ensure fairness, transparency and the value for money.On Friday, contractors from the length and breadth of Guyana, are being invited to gather for a symposium that will outline the bidding exercise, so that all and sundry can be educated in order to participate in the process.This is the session at which the new standard bidding documents would be released.Edghill said this education and awareness symposium will clear the misconception that bidders are pre-selected and only one set of bidders are chosen.According to the official, the government is not interested in “one set” of bidders, but “the best” bidder.As a result, he said the government is attempting to erase the feelings of some contractors that if they bid they would not be awarded a contract.Meanwhile, Edghill said the use of the government’s procurement website is an integral part of the procurement process, but it has not been updated because of certain challenges.The Government Information Agency (GINA) is responsible for posting advertisements calling for the submission of bids and tenders for the supply of goods and services for the government. |
